Rail-joint.



J. KLOBUCHAR.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23, 1917.

1,232,332, Patented July 3, 1917.

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JOI-IAN KLOBUGHAR, 0F STEUBEN, MICHIGAN.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3,1911% Application filed March 23, 1917. Serial No. 156,877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHA'N KLoBUoHAn, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Steuben, inthe county of Schoolcraft and Stateof Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail- Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certainnew and useful improvements in rail j oints.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a ready means for retaining railway rails operatively positioned in longitudinal alinement without the employment of screws, bolts or the usual securing members.

A further object of thedevice is the pro vision of a rail joint structure which possesses great strength and is readily employed in connection with the usual form of rail way rails by providing suitably positioned perforations through the web and the base flanges thereof, the device being retained upon the ties in any desired manner.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views Figure 1 is a side elevation of the adjacent end portions of railway rails operatively connected together by the present device.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof with an end portion of the same partially broken away and illustrated in horizontal section.

Figs. 3 and 1 are vertical transverse sectional views taken upon lines TI1III and lV-IV of Fig. 1.

F ig. 5 is a perspective view of an end portion of a locking fish plate employed with the device, and,

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of one of the locking pins employed.

The present form of connector is herein illustrated in connection with railway rails 10 and 11 positioned in alinement with each other with the end faces thereof abutting one another.

The connector consists of a two-part inclosing frame for the adjacent end portions of the rails 10 and 11 comprising the main section 12 having a base 13 upon which the base flanges 14 of the rails are adapted to seat with an angular side 15 of the section 12 engaging over one side of the base flange in flat engagement with one side of the webs 16 of the rails and beneath and in contact with the rail treads 17.

' A fish plate section 18 completes the inclosing frame for the rails, said fish plate having a-side portion 19 for engaging the rail web 16 and an angular-1y projecting flange 20 for overlying the adjacent base flanges of the rails. An upwardly-extending marginal flange 21 is provided at the free edge of the frame base 13 spaced from the adjacent edge of the base 1 1 of the rail when seated therein, a depending substantially triangular extension 22 being arranged upon the flange 20 for receptionbetween the frame flange 21 and the base flange of the inclosed rails. The flange 21 has a V shaped inner edge 23 adapted for reception within a'correspondiugly-shaped grbove 2% at the outer edge of the fish plate flange 20. An upwardly projecting lug 25 is carried upon the base 13 for each of the rails 10 and 11, the said rails each having a perforation 26 through the base flange thereof for seating over the said lugs, the rails being beveled at the perforations as shown in Fig. 4; to permit the reception of the lugs 25. It will be understood that the frame 12 may be positioned upon the roadbed or upon ties as desired and that the ends of the rails 10 and 11 may be readily positioned in place upon the frame base 13 with the perforations 26 overlying the lugs 25, it being understood that the said perforations and lugs are accurately positioned for bringing the end faces of the rails substantially into engagement with each other when so arranged. A tapered opening 26 is provided through the web 16 of each of the rails while a tapered passage 27 is provided in the adjacent portion 15 of the frame 12 for alinement therewith when the rails are operatively positioned, tapered locking pins 28 being adapted for insertion through the opening 26 and into the passages 27, with the inner ends of the pins lying substantially flush with the face of the receiving web.

The fish plate 18 is then slidably positioned in place in engaging position upon the rails 10 and 11 opposite the frame portion 15 and overlying the locking pins 23 and the lugs 25. The said fish plate being snugly seated in its engaging position as herein illustrated, the rails 10 and 11 are rigidly maintained in their operative positions in longitudinal alinement while the entire structure inay be firmly seciired to ties (not shown) by arranging spikes through open notches 29 at the outer edge of the frame 12 as Well as through openings 30 at the opposite side of the frame base 13 Which openings extend through the flange 21 of the fra ne and the flange 22 of the fish plate 18 in the form of alining notches and3 2 respectively, when the device is assembled; The rails and llbeing securely connected together by the present device, it Will beiinderstood that the arrangement of spikes (not shown) through the notches 29 and ophin'gs 3 0 retains the structure 'uPOIl, the ro'ad-bed as Well as locking th'e fish plate 18 against removal by being Withdrawn from thei am 12.

What I claim as new is r I V p 1. A rail j oi'nt comprising a; frame havih'g a mounting ba'se, and an angular rail-engag ingside provided with tapered passages therethi-ough, rail-engaging locking pins reniovably insertible ithin the said passages, ps'taiiding rail-positioning lugs carried by the said base, an upWardly-extendin margi ai flangecarried by the n ha ng a V-sha'ped inner eclge and an angular fish plate sli dably carried. the fra-Ijne overlyii'ig said pins and having a V-shap'e'd groove said openne s and pa e ivithin which the said fiahg'ed edge is posigioned When the device is operatively assemled. a

2 device of the class described comprising in combination with abutting railway rails having passages through the Webs thereof and perforations through their base flanges, a frame having a base upon which the said tails are seated and further having an angular side engaging the Webs ofthe rails and provided \vi'tli openings theret1 n gh i h aunement With the said vveb o ningsyloc'l'zih g; pin hged through the ,fipositibnihg lugs up h saic base arranged Within the said i ter-magmas; ul \var'dl y projecting niargihal flange iipoh t le said base having pered inward edge, a fish plate adapted for iigagihg the Web s 'aiidbase flahge's of the rails provided with a depending enten's'ion jsli'd'abl yarrah'ged Within said flange of the hasefah'd havilig a groovei i its outer iace adapted for the 1 reception of the said f'e'dge, the said base with flange and the flange and 'entnsioii of the fish plate havihg openings therethroughadapted for the reception ii 'f fti i s spike Tn -t'est'iihony vvhefeof I afiix my signatiire'.

JOHAN KLUBUOHAR. 

